The reason why I made this dinner is incredibly boring… But I needed something to make that would be low calorie, but taste good, was not boring central, and that I could use up the veg that needed eating! Since lasagne sheets are just too carb and calorie expensive, I thought i’d try it with courgette strips instead!
So this is my recipe… and it’s 400 calories… you can really use any veg you want, and adjust the calories accordingly!!
Ingredients:
200 g Tinned chopped tomatoes,
80 g Courgette (chopped into long thin slices!)
30 g Chopped onion,
70 g Chopped leeks,
40 g Yellow pepper,
40 g Mushrooms,
2 Cloves of garlic,
30 g Low calorie cheese,
20 g Olive spread,
20 g Cornflour,
100 g Milk
Spray oil
A bit of water!
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4….
Heat up a pan with a couple of sprays of oil, and cook down the onions, leeks, and garlic for a couple of minutes, then add the rest of the veg and tomatoes. And cook it all down simply, to make a vegetable ragu! (Obviously season to taste… a bit of salt and pepper…)
Melt the olive spread and a couple of sprays of oil in a pan and then mix in the cornflour until it makes a paste…. add some milk and mix it together until smooth, and heat again, keep adding milk and mixing into the cornflour as it thickens up… once you’ve used the milk, you may need a bit of water to make it up to the consistency you want. It really depends on how thick you like the roux! Add a bit of salt and pepper (and mustard powder if you like it! I do… so it’s a must for me…!).
Grab an oven proof dish and the raw courgette strips and you’re ready to layer up!
Put some ragu in the bottom of the dish, and a bit of roux, then courgette strips as if they were lasagne sheets! Keep layering it up, it works out to be about 2 layers of courgette in my dish… so space the sauces out until you end with roux on the top. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes and then put the cheese on top and bake for about another 10 minutes.
Don’t burn yourself, it’s mega hot!!
Nutritional Info:
Cals: 400, Carbs: 45 g, Fat: 11 g, Protein: 17 g.
Simple as! Enjoy!
K.
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